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Status: Duplicate
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Closed: Aug 2016
Cc:
█ col...@google.com
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OS: Linux
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Type: Bug



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Mouse selection does not copy to clipboard

Project Member Reported by mvr@google.com, Aug 15 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2816.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Select some text with mouse
2. Navigate to a different window, e.g. terminal
3. Middle-click to paste the selection

What is the expected behavior?
The selected test copied to the terminal

What went wrong?
The previous contents of clipboard is copied instead

Did this work before? Yes Release 53

Chrome version: 54.0.2816.0  Channel: n/a
OS Version: Linux mrazin.mtv.corp.google.com 3.13.0-92-generic #139-Ubuntu SMP
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0

Explicit clipboard copy with ctrl-C works

Comment 1 by col...@google.com, Aug 15 2016

Cc: col...@google.com
Same problem here, same version of Chrome on Linux.  I filed feedback about this on August 9th in case that helps.

I also noted in my feedback that selecting text in text boxes still does copy to the clipboard.

Comment 2 by thomasanderson@chromium.org, Aug 16 2016 

 Issue 637924  has been merged into this issue.

Comment 3 by thomasanderson@chromium.org, Aug 16 2016

Mergedinto: 635992
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)
Fixed with https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/0b1041f656728be7aba9923c9ac21fd4448b0c15%5E%21/#F0

The fix should appear in 54.0.2826.0 or later.
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